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DURAND GARFIELD LIGGETT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 25, 1948 – May 8, 1967
Service recordDurand Garfield Liggett, of Downey, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 8, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 62
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Downey, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 62
- JOHN EDWARD LANINGPetty Officer Third Class · May 8, 1967
- JAMES LEROY LESTER JRPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- JESUS MARIO LIMONESPrivate · May 8, 1967
- ROBERT LUDECKERSpecialist Four · May 8, 1967
From Downey
- ROBERT RONALD BOHLERSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
- FRED ALBERT TRYON JRPrivate First Class · December 18, 1965
- CLIFFORD LEROY WHIPPLELance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- WALTER L WONNACOTTPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- JON LAIRD MESSERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- MICHAEL CHEROFFSpecialist Four · May 8, 1967
- WAYNE CLARK HARMONCorporal · May 19, 1967
- CHARLES RUSSELL LAUERCorporal · June 18, 1967
- JAMES CURTIS HOUGHTONSpecialist Four · December 16, 1967
- PABLO DURANPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.